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26-05-2025
- General
- Buzz Feed
41 Of The Trashiest Things People Have Put In Writing
My late, great Aunt Imelda used to say, 'You don't need to write down every thought for the world to see. Some things can be just for you, you goddamn stupid idiot!' Aunt Imelda was verbally abusive, but she was right. Then again, she didn't exactly follow her own advice and once sent me a note that read, 'You must be from an ugly side of the family we don't know about.' She was a mean old bat, and honestly, I'm glad she's dead. Anyway, here are 41 incredibly trashy things people put in writing: First, there's this note from a scumbag husband: This sign, which has got to be the trashiest form of guerilla marketing ever (don't bother using the QR code — it just goes to a realtor's ad): And this T-R-A-S-H-Y message some sorority girls hanged outside their sorority house (Megan, call your parents): This write-up about a woman at a Taylor Swift concert has to be read to be believed: This listing — trying to sell a plastic bottle for a grand, saying it'll bring you back to the "Pre-Covid Pre-Woke" days — is 🙄 (and the misspelling of "original" is the least of its problems): And this posting announcing this driver's license office in Alabama is taking the day off to celebrate Confederate Memorial something else: They're not the only states to celebrate this in 20-freaking-25, believe it or not. Some that "celebrate":Mississippi observes it on the last Monday in April with state offices closed. South Carolina recognizes Confederate Memorial Day on May 10 with state offices closed in observance. Texas observes "Confederate Heroes Day" (heroes?!?!?!) on Jan. 19 (also Robert E. Lee's birthday). It remains an official state I don't mean to beat up on the South too much, but whoever made this shirt and anyone who wears it also belong on this list: Also trashy? This note WRITTEN ON A MENSTRUAL PAD!!! (I wonder how bad a parking job it was for her to break out her pad and pen): And this note from a cheap-ass customer will infuriate you in so many ways: This WILD story — maybe a scam to get fired so he could keep the deposit? — could not be any trashier (I've transcribed this wall of text into an easier to read format below): "After seeing someone else post on here about [name blurred] (IMC) I thought I'd share my awful experience with him as well to raise awareness in hopes people avoid in the future!!I did put this in the comments of the original post as well, but thought I'd give it its own post too just so it showed up if anyone searched his name in come out to mine to quote me for a job back in February/March, seemed lovely at first and very professional. Gave him a £550 deposit, then he come out the next day using the excuse that he needed to measure up again even tho he'd already done it the previous day, and when he come out the second time he added £800 onto my original agreed upon he started telling me what he was gunna do in my garden instead of doing the job I was asking him to do n what I was paying him to he started flirting with me and I had to remind him several times he was just here to do a job, nothing he helped himself to alcohol in my house and started drinking my alcohol in my house while discussing the work he was meant to be he asked to borrow a fiver and use my bathroom, which I stupidly allowed him to do, and when he got finished in the bathroom n come back downstairs, he bragged about the line of coke he'd just sniffed in my bathroom that my two very young kids use and even wiped out his baggie in front of my two young give me the fiver back that he'd obviously used to sniff his he got way way way too overly friendly with my kids as well, telling them 'I'm your mammies friend' and then teaching them how to through fkn punches n that!!When I finally got rid of him (he drive his van away from mine while still drinking the alcohol he'd taken from mine and while under the influence of coke that he'd sniffed in mine too btw), I messaged him telling him I wanted my deposit back as I was gunna go with someone else for the work after what he'd done in mine that day only to be told he couldn't return my deposit as he used my money to pay his business tax and insurance while it should of been used for when I argued that point he rang me and got really nasty with me and even threatened me as well if I didn't drop it, and he now has me blocked and never got my money back." These two snotty girls are battling it out to see who can be the worst: And this note — I can't emphasize this enough — makes me freaking HATE Brad: This note was written by a monster who would rather see someone die than be inconvenienced: This note in a work bathroom might somehow be grosser than the nastiness that inspired it: And this note from another work bathroom paints a totally different, but equally nasty picture: This note makes me wonder what the hell is going on at this bar: This text from an aunt going OFF on her very pregnant niece's plan to name her baby Lilith is not cool (what is it with aunts? Looking at you, Imelda!): If you're wondering WTF, here's some context: Lilith was the name of the first wife of Adam, who was banished from the Garden of Eden and, in some tellings, went on to become a she-demon. On the flip side, Lilith is a favorite name of feminists for her independent you think about the name, my take is that if it ain't your should stay out of the parents' naming process! And all the money in the world couldn't buy this entitled brat class: This silly conservative told on himself that he'd be a murderer if not for religion: I'll just let you read what Natalia had to say: And these gross parents are bragging to their kid about drunk driving at 8 a.m.: This genius stamped "Trump lives here" on a depiction of the Lincoln Memorial: This birthday cake couldn't make it at a 5-star restaurant, let's just put it that way: And these dine and ditch punks belong on this list for sure: This couple's messy marriage is laid out for all to see with a divorce on a mattress!: This trashy movie theater spectacle was 100% worth the price of admission: And I think the writer in white beats the doodler in black when it comes to being the worst: This jerk bragged online about being, well, a jerk: This moderator for a breastfeeding Facebook group put down in writing the gross way she makes $$$: And this mistress (or "buddy" as she prefers to be called) also put it all out there on Facebook for the world to see: This idiot dad also put it out there, telling the world, "LOOK AT ME! I AM AS DUMB AS THEY COME!" These people think it's funny to harass people busting their asses for minimum wage (or close to it): And this dad not only made himself look like a jerk but a chump (because what does he think they're doing when they're not visiting him?): This person trying to sell a bucket of day-old KFC made me throw up in my mouth a little: This window tinting service belongs here thanks to this advertisement with these before and after photos: And whoever's trying to sell 187 ciggy could be yours for the amazing price of just $ an intervention: These parents put WAAAAAY too much info on the internet for all to see (for clarity, the child, I believe, is the "stink," but it might also be...): This girl at the lake will never be a debutante: This whole situation makes you shake your head: Wait, sorry. I mean THIS whole situation: And lastly, the subject of this letter does NOT understand recycling (or being a functional human):
Associated Press
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Associated Press
Alabama lawmakers vote to make Juneteenth an official state holiday
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday gave final passage to legislation that will make Juneteenth, the day that commemorates the end of slavery after the Civil War, an official state holiday. The Alabama Senate voted 13-5 for the legislation that now goes to Gov. Kay Ivey for her to sign or veto. Ivey, for the last four years, has used her executive powers to designate Juneteenth as a state holiday. The legislation will make the designation permanent. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865 , the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned from Union soldiers that they were free. The news came two months after the end of the Civil War. Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021. If signed into law, state offices will close on June 19 for the Juneteenth holiday as they do for other state holidays. The bill, which cleared the House of Representatives last month by an 85-4 vote, was sponsored by Republican Rep. Rick Rehm. Alabama senators approved the bill without debate. However, many Republicans in the 35-member chamber opted not to vote on the legislation. Alabama has three Confederate-related state holidays that close state offices . Alabama marks Confederate Memorial Day in April and the birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in June. The state jointly observes Robert E. Lee Day with Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in January.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Yahoo
Another inmate is eligible for execution in SC on the 2nd of his 2 death sentences
The above shows the execution chamber in the Department of Corrections' Columbia prisons complex, as seen from the witness room. The firing squad chair (left) was added following a 2021 state law that made death by firing squad an option. The electric chair is under the cover. (Provided by the S.C. Department of Corrections) COLUMBIA — A sixth death row inmate who was twice sentenced to death by separate juries has run out of appeals for one of his killings and could be scheduled for execution in the coming weeks, according to the state Attorney General's Office. The U.S. Supreme Court denied inmate Stephen Stanko's appeal of his 2009 conviction for shooting his friend four years prior. Stanko was also sentenced to death in 2006 for killing his girlfriend and raping her then-15-year-old daughter and leaving her for dead. The appeals process continues on that conviction. But Monday's decision by the nation's high court clears the way for the state Supreme Court to issue a death warrant for the 57-year-old, an attorney for the Attorney General's Office wrote in a letter to state justices. The court usually issues death warrants on Fridays, giving inmates exactly four weeks before their execution dates under state law. The court will be closed this coming Friday in observance of Confederate Memorial Day, a state holiday. Whether the court might still issue a death notice for Stanko that day is unclear. Stanko would be the sixth inmate put to death in the state since executions resumed in September 2024, following an unintended 13-year hiatus. Legislators added firing squad as an option for executions in 2021, and two inmates chose that as their method of execution earlier this year. The other three died by lethal injection, which again became an option with the help of an expanded law keeping most information about executions, including the source of the drugs, secret. Stanko was tried for crimes in two different counties — Georgetown and Horry — and sentenced to death in both cases. On April 7, 2005, Stanko strangled his girlfriend, Laura Ling, to death while beating and raping her daughter at their home in Murrell's Inlet. Stanko slit the daughter's throat and left her for dead, stealing jewelry and a credit card from her and her mother. He withdrew money from Ling's bank account at a nearby ATM, then drove to Conway, according to court records. There, Stanko committed the crime for which he has exhausted his appeals. The next morning, April 8, 2005, Stanko brought his friend Henry Turner breakfast from McDonald's. As the 74-year-old shaved in front of his bathroom mirror, Stanko shot him in the back, using a pillow as a silencer for his gun. He then hit Turner in the head and shot him again in the chest, this time fatally, according to court records. Stanko stole Turner's truck and fled, driving from Conway to Columbia, then to Augusta, Georgia, the next day. There, he convinced a woman he was a businessman in town for the Masters golf tournament. Stanko spent several days staying in the woman's apartment and attending church with her. After Stanko left April 12, the woman recognized Stanko's picture in the newspaper alongside a headline about Turner's death. She called the police, who captured Stanko while he was still in Augusta. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2006 for killing Ling and raping her daughter, then given another death sentence in 2009 for killing Turner. In both cases, Stanko's attorneys unsuccessfully claimed he was insane during the time of the killings, according to court records. SC executes second death row inmate by firing squad Stanko had been out of prison for nine months after serving over eight years for kidnapping and assaulting another woman, according to court records. He was also under investigation for running several scams in and around Myrtle Beach, including representing himself as a lawyer and investigator. At the time of the crimes, people who had paid him had begun to demand their money back and were threatening to report him to the police, prosecutors wrote in court filings. He is one of 26 inmates listed on death row in South Carolina, though one of them is held in California on a separate conviction.
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Yahoo
Idaho Pastor Arrested on Unbelievable Charges, Wisconsin Woman Allegedly Shoots Beloved Dentist to Death, What Diddy Cooked Up For Pre-Trial Defense and Other Criminal Justice Stories From This Week
Even though it's been 160 years since the Civil War ended, Black Americans are still feeling the effects of the war that almost tore the nation apart over slavery. The pain and betrayal stemming from the Civil War continues to be a sore spot of conversation in the country, so of course when several southern states continue to celebrate Confederate Memorial Day, it cuts a little deeper. - Phenix S Halley Read More Gregory Wayne Jones was well-respected in his community of Mountain Home, Idaho. His work as a director of operations at a daycare and as a pastor made Jones a trusted civilian in the area. That is until he was arrested on heinous accusations. - Phenix S Halley Read More Milwaukee police are investigating what led to the killing of a well-known dentist in the area. The family of Dr. Akintunde Bowden described him as a gentle giant, saying they can't imagine how his own neighbor allegedly gunned him down inside their apartment building. - Phenix S Halley Read More With less than two weeks until Sean 'Diddy' Combs is set to stand trial, the disgraced rapper is pulling a few more tricks out his bag. This time around, Diddy is hoping a jury will buy his new you won't believe what he cooked up. - Phenix S Halley Read More For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Some states celebrate the Confederacy today, a day after Trump ends Indigenous Peoples Day
Some southern states are observing a holiday celebrating the Confederacy — one day after President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he would no longer recognize Indigenous Peoples Day alongside Columbus Day. Every year in April, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi celebrate what is known as Confederate Memorial Day, which is only celebrated by a few states, that recognizes the 250,000 Confederate Soldiers who lost their lives, according to WHNT News. During the holiday, state offices including state courts and Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) are closed while federal offices and mail remain open. Confederate Memorial Day became an annual state holiday in Alabama in 1901 to honor the deaths of Confederate soldiers on the day that Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered at Durham Station, North Carolina on April 26, 1866, according to the Encyclopedia of Alabama. This negotiation is recognized as being the reason for ending 'major hostilities in the Civil War,' the encyclopedia noted. Two weeks prior to Johnston's surrender, Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, according to the Clarion Ledger. Johnston was still in the field with nearly 90,000 soldiers. Although Confederate Memorial Day is celebrated across the South, different states recognize the holiday in their own ways. Mississippi celebrates the confederate holiday on the last Monday in April while Alabama and Florida have it on the fourth Monday in April. Alabama treats it as an official holiday, the Clarion Ledger wrote. Texas also celebrates Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday, but the state recognizes the celebration on Jan. 19. Meanwhile, North and South Carolina celebrate it on May 10, but state offices close only in South Carolina, according to the Clarion Ledger. Kentucky and Tennessee honor the dead from the Civil War on June 3 and Tennessee calls it Confederate Decoration Day. A bill was introduced in Mississippi in 2023 to drop Confederate Memorial Day and designate June 19 as Juneteenth Freedom Day but it was rejected, according to WHNT News. The celebration of Confederate Memorial Day comes a day after Trump announced that he would no longer recognize Indigenous Peoples Day alongside Columbus Day, which is celebrated in October. On Sunday, Trump accused Democrats of denigrating explorer Christopher Columbus's legacy as he pressed his campaign to restore what he argues are traditional American icons. Former president Joe Biden marked Indigenous Peoples Day by issuing a proclamation in 2021 that celebrated 'the invaluable contributions and resilience of Indigenous peoples' and recognize 'their inherent sovereignty.' The proclamation noted that America 'was conceived on a promise of equality and opportunity for all people' but that promise 'we have never fully lived up to. That is especially true when it comes to upholding the rights and dignity of the Indigenous people who were here long before colonization of the Americas began.' Trump wrote on his Truth Social site that 'I'm bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes' and that 'the Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation, and all of the Italians that love him so much.' The October holiday was known as Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day during Biden's term. Activists have wanted to shift the focus from commemorating Columbus' navigation to the Americans to his and his successors' exploitation of the indigenous people he encountered there. This is when a judge will hear arguments in Harvard v. Trump administration lawsuit Report: Affordable housing in Mass. needs to be even more affordable Court battle over Harvard funding freeze to extend into summer Grandmother, mother and baby struck by a car in Concord, all hospitalized 'Hamilton' show designer to be 2025 UMass Amherst commencement speaker 12aa
